The specially designed unis look like something out of a futuristic video game, but let’s consider old school for a moment.

TCU’s traditional dominant color has been purple. The new uniforms take purple out of the jersey and helmet and relegate the regal hue to the pant stripes, belt, socks, and shoelaces, and that seems just a bit too cutely accessorized for a football suit.

The pants look like some odd combination of newsprint and camouflage, same for the jersey numbers, and the … wait, what ... purple socks?

The gloves shown in the photo accompanying the ESPNDallas story look to have been stolen from Michael Jackson.

Bruce Felps owns and operatesEast Dallas Times, an online community news outlet serving the White Rock Lake area. His dad once told him that dad’s late-‘40s high school football team wore G.I. surplus Army helmets rather than football helmets. His dad lies.